China May Execute SARS Quarantine Violators

WashingtonPost.com ^ | May 14, 2003

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

China has said it will execute or award a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading SARS.

The supreme court and the country's top prosecutor laid down the punishment in an interpretation of laws on hindering the prevention or treatment of sudden disease outbreaks and other disasters, the Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday.

"Intentionally spreading sudden contagious disease pathogens, endangering public security or serious personal injury, death or heavy loss of public or private property will be punishable by from 10 years to life in prison or the death penalty," the state agency said.

[Travis McGee]

This is deadly series!

[Calpernia]

PING!

[JulieRNR21]

China has said it will execute or award a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading SARS.

FYI.....BUMP

[bruinbirdman]

Taking a lesson from Fidel and his AIDS patients, eh?

yitbos

[Billy_bob_bob]

On the one hand, we have reports that supposedly SARS is under control in China, and that new infection rates are going down. On the other hand, we have pronouncements from the Chinese government that anyone caught breaking quarantine or "intentionally infecting" other people will be punished by death.

Somehow these two things don't seem to fit together. If SARS is under control why make such Draconian rules?

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #6

SARS could pick up in the country side while it may be slowing down in big cities. Can't take the chance of SARS picking up again in the rural area, I guess. It would be an international embarrassment to Chinese regime, which it cannot stand.

No more black eye to the reigme, due to SARS.

[AdA$tra]

It certainly would help stop the spread of SARS. Isn't it nice to have China as our largest trading partner?

[buffyt]

If AIDS patients had been quarantined twenty or so years ago that disease might be a thing of the past by now......

[xp38]

A common error...Canada is the largest trading partner of the US. It just seems to be China.

[TLBSHOW]

leave it to the commies to use death as their answer.

China is one sick country. Any American that trades with or buys from or works with them, helps the RED CHINESSE communist enemy.

[TBall]

The crazy thing is that the policy of shoooting could conceivably end up saving a lot of lives.

[Enemy Of The State]

I saw this one coming a long time ago. They execute every chance they get, its another form of population reform.

[aristeides]

Ping.

[-YYZ-]

Funny, huh? 30 million Canadians buy more US goods than a billion Chinese. BTW, the WHO announced yesterday that Canada is now no longer considered a danger as far as SARS is concerned. In fact, it's pretty much done here, there's just a few cases left in hospitals.

If the Chinese gov't had not stuck their heads in the sand initially, denying and covering up, they wouldn't be in the this situation now, trying to make it look like they're serious about it with pronouncements like this.

[vetvetdoug]

Back to the basics, test, isolate and slaughter.....yecch.....

[blam]

A terminal solution to Quarantine violaters.

[aristeides]

Now Laurie Garrett is reporting on this: Death for SARS spreaders: China.

[aristeides]

Final solution of the SARS problem.

[aristeides]

I wonder what they're going to do to this doctor: China Arrests Doctor for SARS Outbreak .